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(From
to dissolve). An universal faintness.
(From
to form together). See Crocomagma.
(From
to depress or press outward). An epithet for ulcers with protuberat-ing lips.
(From
and
to obstruct).
Deobstruent medicines.
(From the same). An opening of the pores.
(From
and
to produce). An appendix, or excrescence. The appendicula vermiformis is sometimes thus called.
(From
and
to breathe through). A quick expulsion of the air out of the lungs.
(From the same,) flatus from the bladder through the urethra, and from the womb through the vagina.
(From
and
to produce). See
Apophysis, also Duodenum.
(From
and
to press out).
Magma; or the juice that is pressed out from the plants of which the magma is made. It is also, with little propriety, the name of a kind of fracture of the cranium, in which the bones are shattered, and press inwardly, on the membranes of the brain.
(From
and
to press out.) In general it implies expression; but it is the name of a disorder of the eye, which consists in a great prominence of the entire globe, thrust, as it were, almost out of the orbit by a flow of humours, or a tumour from the bottom or sides of the orbit.
It is also a true exophthalmia produced by strong exertions, by which the eyes are so far pressed out as to remain prominent. Protuberances of the eyes, happening from child bed pains, are often cured by the succeeding discharges and lochia. It is therefore unnecessary to employ any remedy. Wallis's Nosologia Ocu-lorum.
See Ecpyema. Ecpleroma, (from
to fill). Any substance to fill a cavity. In Hippocrates, they are hard balls of leather, or other substances, adapted to fill the arm pits, while, by the help of the heels, placed against the balls, and pressing the same, the luxated os humeri is reduced into its place.
 
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